Other landmarks and discoveries in the field of microbiology are summarized in Table 1. Table 1. Synopsis of some milestones in microbiology Event Discoverer Date Discovery of Petri dish (plate) Richard Petri 1887 Discovery of nutrient agar (agar-agar) Fanny A. Eilshemius & Dr. Walter Hesse 1881 Release of first edition of Bargey’s Manual Professor David […]
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Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch scientist and tradesman who did a part time job as a draper and amateur microscopist while investigating the microbial world whit his crude or simple microscopes. Leeuwenhoek is generally known as “the Father of Microbiology”, and he is also considered to be the first microbiologist since he was the
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General Microbiology
Microbiology as a field in the biological sciences saw the light of the day because of several innovative research and experiments by pioneers in this field. The study of microbiology will be incomplete without a touch on the founding fathers of this important field of biological sciences. Several scientists in time past contributed tremendously to
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